Thursday was mandatory review day at The Salt Lake Tribune for our nondiscrimination and anti-harassment policy. The entire newsroom was summoned.
These periodic reviews are to ensure that socially indifferent employees like me remain permanently on notice and therefore much easier to fire (or hang) if we get out of line. The reviews cannot be avoided.
Me • “As the most unrepentant and discriminatory harasser in the newsroom, this is a complete waste of my time. Do I really have to go to this stupid meeting?”
I went to the meeting. But just so there was no misunderstanding, I brought Jennifer a flower, hugged her and told her that she looked lovely.